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Humanitarian Aid Fraud and Social Media Propaganda: How Russian Influence Works in France

About organizations, people, and media that promote Russian narratives and spread the influence of the aggressor state in France. On May...

4 days ago

Russia’s Hybrid Playbook in Africa: Arms, Business, Propaganda

Russia continues to actively advance its interests in Africa. The Kremlin is using soft power to strengthen its foothold in the region....

Jul 24

The Kremlin’s tale of the European bogeyman

Moscow pays lip service to peace, yet its disinformation peddlers talk constantly of war. This is no accident. Portraying European...

Jul 17

The myth of betrayal: the West as the eternal enemy

T he myth of the evil West, always on the verge of attacking, served Soviet leaders well for decades—and it’s back in full force in...

Jul 11

Matryoshka’s Moldovan manipulation

In recent days, the Kremlin-backed Matryoshka disinformation network has launched a new blitz aimed squarely at Moldova’s President Maia...

Jul 7

Hate speech inciting mass violence against civilians is an international crime

The role of Russian propaganda in driving Russia’s aggression and other international crimes in Ukraine has by now been acknowledged at...

Jun 26

Never let a crisis go to waste

In the Kremlin’s playbook of manipulation, every crisis, every tragedy, is an asset. The Israel-Iran escalation is no exception. The...

Jun 24

African Initiative: Russian FIMI operation disguised as a news agency

The Kremlin has steadily expanded its foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI) operations globally. We have tracked their...

Jun 19

An unpleasant incident

The Kremlin downplays Ukraine’s devastating attack on Russian military airfields, looking for distractions and feebly recycling old lies...

Jun 9

Georgia’s Foreign Agents law: protecting sovereignty or attacking civil society?

Georgia’s authorities have started a disinformation campaign ahead of the application of a new Foreign Agents law. A new law is...

Jun 4

History Wars: Lithuania’s Next

Smears, nit-picking, and conspiracy theories are ammunition for the Kremlin. By Edward Lucas History, in the hands of Kremlin...

Jun 3

From Screen to Battlefield: Constructing the Image of the Enemy on Russian Television

As recently as early 2014, 66% of Russians had a positive attitude toward Ukraine and Ukrainians, but within a year, Kremlin propaganda...

May 30

Exposing and analysing Russia’s FIMI operations

On March 19, the EU HRVP Kaja Kallas presented the 3rd EEAS Report(opens in a new tab) on Foreign Information Manipulation and...

May 21

A glossary: who is who in the FIMI zoo?

The 3rd EEAS Report on Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI) Threats offers a wealth of insights into information...

May 15

Bosnia: Moscow’s Second Front in Europe

The Kremlin is playing games behind the scenes in the Balkans, presenting the West with a challenge and an opportunity. Source:...

May 13

Rewriting history: the myth of Russia’s invincibility

As the world commemorates 80 years since the end of World War II, the most devastating global conflict the world had ever seen, the...

May 12

The myth that won’t die: blaming NATO for Russia’s war

In the murky landscape of disinformation, few narratives have proven as stubbornly persistent as the claim that NATO expansion provoked...

May 7

In Russia’s FIMI laboratory: test case, Moldova

Last year’s combination of a presidential election and an EU referendum offered Russia an opportunity it could not afford to ignore, as...

Apr 28

Enter the galaxy: a network analysis of influence operations

Foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI) operations are a complex and multi-faceted challenge which, as evidenced by...

Apr 16

Russian spies as disinformation actors

For years, one of the biggest obsessions of pro-Kremlin disinformation peddlers has been convincing their audiences that any and all...

Apr 4